Yacoubian Building

Name: Yacoubian Building
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ISBN: 9789774248627

ISBN-10: 9774248627

ISBN-13: 9789774248627

Edition: N/A

Authors: Alaa Al Aswany, Humphrey Davies

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The Yacoubian Building holds all that Egypt was and has become over the 75 years since its namesake was built on one of downtown Cairo's main boulevards. From the pious son of the building's doorkeeper and the raucous, impoverished squatters on its roof, via the tattered aristocrat and the gay intellectual in its apartments, to the ruthless businessman whose stores occupy its ground floor, each sharply etched character embodies a facet of modern Egypt -- where political corruption, ill-gotten wealth, and religious hypocrisy are natural allies, where the arrogance and defensiveness of the powerful find expression in the exploitation of the weak, where youthful idealism can turn quickly to…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Publication date: 3/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 266
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Humphrey Davies is an award-winning translator of Arabic literature from the Ottoman period to the present. Writers he has translated include Yusuf al-Shirbini, Elias Khoury, Alaa Al Aswany, Bahaa Taher, Muhammad Mustagab, Gamal al-Ghitani, Hamdy el-Gazzar, Khaled Al-Berry, and Ahmed Alaidy. He lives in Cairo.